mei guos and fa guos.

so this weekend was kind of out of control. more in terms of the fact that i went out friday night anddd saturday night. whew.
friday night was the party at the french people's place which was pretty fun. their contingent is HUGE, at least 20-30 people. i still haven't really met everyone. but anyway, so the party mostly consisted of mingling and talking with a whole bunch of different people which was pretty fun. there was alcohol but nothing like certain parties in the US. no crazy alcohol games and whatever. just sipping on drinks and hanging out. it was great.
but then some people suggested going to Vic's which is this big dance club in salitun [which i'm guessing is the 'party' district cause that's where all the bars and whatever seem to be]. some of us had never been so they were trying to convince us to go. and we did. we somehow all got in for free which was sweet. the place was pretty cool but so LOUD. i've been in loud, noisy clubs before but this was out of control. anyway, apparently one of the guys had a hook-up or something cause we got a little couch/table area and there was fruit and drinks and all that. and then one of the waiters brought over buckets full of ice which had sparklers in them and reallllly tasty drinks in nice glasses. it was so random! it was a fun night overall.
then the next night, the french people called us again and we decided to meet up with them for dinner. so we all met up [although greg/alan/phil got lost AGAIN]. after everyone got to the meeting spot, we headed over to the restaurant but they couldn't accommodate all of us [the french contingent is real serious. they have at least 20 twenty people in their group all the time]. so we spent the next like hour and a half trying to find a place. but eventually we all kinda split into separate groups. so the group i was in kept walking around for a while and eventually we ended up at hooters.
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now if you know me, i'm a women's studies major/feminist and not so big on the exploitation-of-women's-bodies-etc kind of thing. but it was late, we were hungry, and most people just wanted to eat at that point.
it wasn't THAT bad, relatively speaking. but i was so uncomfortable with all these women [esp. since they were women of color] walking around in super tight short-shorts and slightly low-cut tank tops. they were all really sweet and SO PETITE. it was a little scary. the food was american, i.e., hot dogs/burgers, and way over-priced. and they had all these slightly sexist signs up. and of course, sports was on the television. it was just....surreal. someone who has an asian fetish would be in heaven here. 'fetishized/exoticized asian women in tight clothes serving me food! YES!!'
afterwards, we went to this small club where we chilled and smoked hookah. it was nice, albeit somewhat awkward. the conversation wasn't flowing very well for some reason. then we all took taxi's home and called it a night.
it's been pretty fun hanging out with them so far. to be honest, i didn't expect them to wanna hang out with us so much. i thought they'd call every once in a while and that would be it. but we see each other pretty often since other kei people have class with them. so most of the time we'll end up going out to lunch after class is over [although we usually have to split up] and then they invite us to stuff on the weekends. but yay for making new friends!

i met this asian french girl in my class the other day. she asked me where i was from and i told her america and she was pretty surprised and said 'you don't look american' which i'm not really sure what she meant by that. did she mean i didn't look american cause i'm of asian descent? i dunno.
and then this other french girl we've been hanging out with asked me about my ethnicity and i told her chinese. and this other asian french girl then asked if i was mixed and was surprised when i said i wasn't. i find this interesting since i got that question a few times while i was in japan as well. or else people thought i was south east asian. i've always felt like i didn't like your typical 'chinese' person, whatever that even means. i dunno.

homework!